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Folk ArtContinuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian
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Henry Glassie, Pravina Shukla

Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India…

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9780253067234
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Daniel JohnstonA Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina
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Henry Glassie

DANIEL JOHNSTON, raised on a farm in Randolph County, returned from Thailand with a new way to make monumental pots. Back home in North Carolina, he built a log shop and a whale of a kiln for wood-firing. Then he set out to create beautiful pots, grand in scale, graceful in form, and burned bright in a blend of ash and salt. With mastery achieved and apprentices to teach, Daniel Johnston turned…

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9780253048905
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1 online resource (272 pages)
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Folk Housing in Middle VirginiaA Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts
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Henry Glassie

In this fascinating analysis of eighteenth-century vernacular houses of Middle Virginia, Henry Glassie presents a revolutionary and carefully constructed methodology for looking at houses and interpreting from them the people who built and used them. Glassie believes that all relevant historical evidence—unwritten as well as written—must be taken into account before historical truth…

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9798895270653
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Vernacular Architecture
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Henry Glassie

Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a prime resource for the one who would wr…

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9780253023629
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1 online resource (200 pages)
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